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Dear friends,
Please excuse the cross-posting, but I wanted to share this with you
from the CT-Waterbury list as an example of how valuable the new "Google
Books" can be for genealogists.
I know its been mentioned on ROOTS-L a couple times, but I just had to
share this with you as well . . .
While some may benefit from the exact links below, I hope you will
consider this an invitation to do your own genealogical queries on
Google Books.
(Its in Connecticut, and my SCOTT line married my WARNER line, so its
not totally unrelated...plenty of Warner links in the book too, of the
John Warner of Farmington who arrived 1635 as a passenger on the
Increase line and lived briefly in Hartford prior to removing to
Farmington and becoming a proprietor of the Mattatuck Plantation which
became Waterbury.)
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gar
http://www.askgar.com/waterbury/
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I can't tell you how excited I am about having these books available in
full text searchable form!
Joseph Anderson's "The Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, from the
Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five" three
volume set is now available *AND FULLY TEXT SEARCHABLE* at Google Books.
Volume I:
http://books.google.com/books?id=U_QLAAAAYAAJ
Volume II:
http://books.google.com/books?id=C0oQfpF_w04C
Volume III:
http://books.google.com/books?id=B8Q1AAAAIAAJ
Also of interest:
The History of Waterbury, Connecticut: The original township
embracing present Watertown and Plymouth, and parts of Oxford,
Wolcott, Middlebury, Prospect, and Naugatuck, by Henry Bronson
http://books.google.com/books?id=cUMOAAAAIAAJ
The Churches at Mattatuck:
http://books.google.com/books?id=0voBAAAAYAAJ
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So, for example, click on the Volume I link above.
Then go to the "Read this book" tab.
On the far right, there is a box that says "Search this book".
I type in "Edmund Scott".
It shows me links on:
p. 118 The Mr. Scott referred to was perhaps Joseph, the son of Edmund
Scott of Waterbury, but his death occurred nearly, if not quite fifty
years later. .
p. 165 On the next lot—belonging to Edmund Scott—we find a house perfect
according to the specifications of the committee. Not a complaint has
been made against
p. 166 This lot was subsequently bestowed upon Edmund Scott, Junior. Our
only authority for the ages of the children of Edmund Scott is the
Probate Court record,
p. 175 permitted to live on the south side of the green plain, where he
has a merry company of half-brothers, for his mother is now the wife of
Edmund Scott. .
p. 180 Edmund Scott, Junr., had a house, but it was without a chimney.
Obadiah Richards had not built his house according to the dimensions
required by the
p. 182 This is believed to be the last meeting held at Farmington by the
Committee for Mattatuck, for upon the same paper and beneath the deed of
Edmund Scott, .
p. 197 iV- confirm unto Thomas Judd, John Standly, Robert Porter, Edmund
Scott, Isaac Brun- son, John Wilton & the rest of the proprietors
Inhabitants of the
p. 206 Edmund Scott, Thomas Newell
p. 208 Warner, Edmund Scott, Obadiah Richar Daniel Warner, Thomas Hancox
John Warner, Great Lot,
p. 213 town grants to Edmund Scott a parcel of land laying within the
common fence, butting east on the burying yard, north on the fence, west
on the highway
p. 224 Edmund Scott, Jr., lived next west of Mr. Peck. Both house lots
were between Church and State streets, and this land received the waters
of the two streams
p. 236 At the close of the century, seven of the original proprietors
had died in Waterbury, Robert Porter and Philip Judd in 1689, Edmund
Scott and John
p. 239 The next division west, became known as Scott's meadow from an
allotment in it to Edmund Scott. Scott's meadow gave the name to that region
p. 248 Judd and Benjamin Barnes were townsmen; Edmund Scott and John
Warner viewed the fences,
p. 257 This Thomas Scott was, I think, the grandfather of Edmund of
Waterbury. He died in 1643, while making his will in the presence of two
friends who had been .
p. 267 been accounted for, the adjoining thousand, extending to the
western limit of the burying-yard, was made by John Warner, Edmund
Scott, and Samuel Judd.
p. 271 Timothy Stanley, Jeremiah Peck, Dr. Porter, and Edmund Scott
voted to extend the fence to Beacon brook. Thirteen proprietors voted
against the extension.
p. 280 at his hog field at the north side of Philip's meadow;" Joseph
Gaylord Sen. and Edmund Scott, "at Judd's Meadow above where Butler's
house was;"
p. 281 Timothy Standly, and Edmund Scott—nevertheless the town went on
giving away its lands even at the same meeting.
p. 292 names of John Hopkins, Captain Thomas Judd, Edmund Scott, Jr.,
and John Richards complete the list of those who represented original
proprietors
p. 346 In 1699 Benjamin Barnes was granted six acres at the west side of
the spring, against his yard; Edmund Scott was to have a piece of land
that lay between
p. 349 In 1730 Edmund Scott 3d, was living on Great, later Gunn hill,
and Samuel Barnes had a house near his brother, John Barnes
p. 666 earliest mention that has been noticed upon our records I of a
burial place in Waterbury is in 1695, as follows: "The town grants to
Edmund Scott a
p. 693 Cotton Wool Meadow - Edmund Scott owned land there in 1722 as one
of the "proprietors of the old saw mill"
p. 694 Edmund's Mountain, named from the second Edmund Scott. . .
Clicking on the "found" text jumps you immediately to the appropriate
page in the PDF.
Sadly, the PDF that you are able to download is an "image only" PDF, and
not a full-text searchable PDF, but as long as the Google Books project
remains online, the full search should be available there!
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Gary Warner
Director of Research in Computer Forensics
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
gar(a)cis.uab.edu gar(a)askgar.com
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